Tranquil theme (demo) is a stylish Jekyll template originally designed for my blog.
Features
- Responsive design
- Mathematics with Latex notation
- Comment threads
- Pagination
- Browsing by categories/tags
- Archive: posts timeline
- Homepage slider of feature posts
- Blog widgets
- Back to top button
- Vintage fashion
Quick-start guide
- Assume you already installed Jekyll following instructions.
- Fork and clone tranquil-theme.
- Edit site options in
_config.yml, create your own posts in _post/.
- Run
jekyll serve under site directory and your site is on now!
Some notes
- edit your social accounts in
_data/social.yaml
- assign ONE category for each post
- add
feature into tags if you want to show post at homepage slider
- go to
images/ and place sidebar portrait pic and ads pic
- if MathJax is enabled, use
\[...\] for displayed mathematics and \(...\) for in-line mathematics
- ADVANCED: if you want to further customize your site, check out Jekyll to understand how it works, also check out html/css/javascript tutorials and liquid language to learn code.
site configurations
| Variable |
Description |
| baseurl |
the subpath of the site |
| paginate |
posts per pagination |
| disqus_forumname |
create a site on disqus and put the forum name here |
| aboutme |
a description about self |
| ads |
ads banner image path |
post configurations
| Variable |
Description |
| background |
post’s feature picture |
| category |
put ONE category in each post |
| tags |
a list of tags |
| math |
set true or false to enable MathJax mathematics |
